you can take the federal immigration law as a good example of sheriffs and local law enforcement around the country are not required nor are they supposed to enforce those types of laws. so it is a separation of power, and it's my position that the linn county sheriff's office that myself or my deputies, that we enforce that regulation. >> you don't have to enforce a federal law, so what is the point of writing the vice president about this, haven't you stripped away your own power by automatically saying that. >> what i was talking about my own citizens were asking myself and my deputies what my position was on this and i needed to make it known to them and it became more and more questions were asked so instead of just having my deputy answer for me, i decided i would put this out and let them know and also i didn't hear why the information coming out of vice president biden's committee as far as what some of the proposals may be and i didn't see a lot of, you know, participation or outreach to sheriffs and law enforcement out west, especially in my case pacific west. it sure wasn't a